I started August with great plans to post every day / every week / at least once. It wasn’t that I did nothing to write about, it’s just that I’m a lazy sod. I’ve walked in the company of The Gentle Author, I’ve walked the mail rail loop, I’ve walked the financial district of London …
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Five un-blogged things I did in July
Got interested enough in transistors again that I started writing a book shaped object. Said object now has three chapters and is how I’d have wanted to learn about transistors. Work has paused for now, due to items 2 and 3 in this list. Went to the delayed winter meeting of the anatomical society, held …
Stepping on bits of Dagenham I’ve not stepped on before.
Since the first lockdown, when we were all taking our allotted ‘one exercise session per day’ seriously, I’ve been walking around my home town a lot more then I have in years. Initially it was interesting to walk down side streets I’ve not been along before, or to let the dog choose a direction at …
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February count
I borrowed an idea from Diamond Geezer who is on his 20th year of counting things during the month of February. I decided to count in five categories:1) Cups of Tea drunk2) 500ml bottles of coke zero drunk3) Cycle trips4) Meetings attended (in person and virtually)5) Number of Radios I repaired You may think that …
The Tonga Volcano
At around 04:15 UTC on 2022/1/15 the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai Volcano exploded in the Pacific Ocean. A devastating event for anyone close by, and the tsunami generated affected seal levels anywhere with a pacific coast line. The satellite videos of the eruption show a pressure wave spreading out ahead of the dust cloud. The Met …